Hiding Empty Shopping Categories

First and foremost – awesome theme & thank you for all the hard work that went into it!

I have a slight issue / question: When viewing the Woocommerce category pages (such as the “shop” page I have the “Categories menu in page heading” turned on and it is displaying. However it is also displaying empty categories. Is there a way to prevent it from displaying categories that are yet to be filled in, or even down the road that I do not intend people having direct navigation to?

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Hello,

Thank you so much purchasing our theme and contacting our support center.

You can do this modifying this function a bit. Just place the following snippet to your child theme functions.php file

function basel_product_categories_nav() {
	global $wp_query, $post;

	$show_subcategories = basel_get_opt( 'shop_categories_ancestors' );

	$list_args = array(  
		'taxonomy' => 'product_cat', 
		'hide_empty' => true 
	);

	// Menu Order
	$list_args['menu_order'] = false;
	$list_args['menu_order'] = 'asc';

	// Setup Current Category
	$current_cat   = false;
	$cat_ancestors = array();

	if ( is_tax( 'product_cat' ) ) {

		$current_cat   = $wp_query->queried_object;
		$cat_ancestors = get_ancestors( $current_cat->term_id, 'product_cat' );

	}

	$list_args['depth']            = 5;
	$list_args['child_of']         = 0;
	$list_args['title_li']         = '';
	$list_args['hierarchical']     = 1;
	$list_args['use_desc_for_title']= false;

	$shop_link = get_post_type_archive_link( 'product' );

	include_once( WC()->plugin_path() . '/includes/walkers/class-product-cat-list-walker.php' );

	echo '<a href="#" class="basel-show-categories">' . __('Categories', 'basel') . '</a>';

	echo '<ul class="basel-product-categories">';
	
	echo '<li class="cat-link shop-all-link"><a href="' . esc_url( $shop_link ) . '">' . __('All', 'basel') . '</a></li>';

	if( $show_subcategories ) {
		basel_show_category_ancestors();
	} else {
		wp_list_categories( $list_args  );
	}

	echo '</ul>';
}

Kind Regards
XTemos Studio

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